Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices

A field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States--and...
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Author: Kristin Hass
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Language: English
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Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices by Hass, Kristin

Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices

€36,20

Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices

€36,20
Author: Kristin Hass
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States--and how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future

Cultural infrastructure has been designed to maintain structures of inequality, and while it doesn't seem to be explicitly about race, it often is. Blunt Instruments helps readers identify, contextualize, and name elements of our everyday landscapes and cultural practices that are designed to seem benign or natural but which, in fact, work tirelessly to tell us vital stories about who we are, how we came to be, and who belongs.

Examining landmark moments such as the erection of the first American museum and Colin Kaepernick's kneeling pledge of allegiance, historian Kristin Hass explores the complicated histories of sites of cultural infrastructure, such as:

- the American Museum of Natural History
- the Bridge to Freedom in Selma
- the Washington Monument
- Mount Auburn Cemetery
- Kehinde Wiley's 2019 sculpture Rumors of War
- the Victory Highway
- the Alamo Cenotaph

With sharp analysis and a broad lens, Hass makes the undeniable case that understanding what cultural infrastructure is, and the deep and broad impact that it has, is essential to understanding how structures of inequity are maintained and how they might be dismantled.

Author: Kristin Hass
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 01/24/2023
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780807006719


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/01/2022 pg. 155
Publishers Weekly 09/12/2022
Booklist 11/01/2022 pg. 22

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